Blimey. Have I really stumped Typophile twice in one post? I doubt it.

So it's a custom font and those embellishments have no standardised typographic anatomical name then.

I'm guessing Tuscan embellishments come in a variety of forms and positions on a glyph? Googling the phrase "Tuscan embellishment" only results in one highly inappropriate result. So it doesn't look like that singular element can be called that then.

According to the Baines/Haslam Typography book, Tuscans are classified as such based on whether or not their serifs fork. The passage goes on to say that toward the end of the 19th century, Tuscan stems began to aquire "bulges" (from which one would guess the diamond-shaped embellishments evolved).

Hey, Paul, did you happen to see those Tuscan Bulges on the Undefeated logotype at the start of this thread? I thought, as Tuscan Bulges go, they were quite good ones. I especialy liked the way these Tuscan Bulges were complimentary to the angles elsewhere in the font.

Of course these Tuscan Bulges are not the most Tuscan of Tuscan Bulges or even the most bulging of Tuscan Bulges but they are still very nice Tuscan Bulges all the same.

I think bulge in this instance implies something ugly. If something is bulging, it seems to me, it is a lack of proper engineering or design. However, the above typographic and *ahem* physcial features are both not ugly and designed on purpose.